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Knowledge is a foundation

We believe that knowledge is a foundation. It is a foundation for human potential, a foundation for freedom, a foundation for opportunity.

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
That's our commitment.

Knowledge is powerful. A country or community that has better access to knowledge is more likely to be healthy, more likely to be free, more likely to be happy.[1][2]
Unfortunately, access to knowledge is not equal. In some places, people cannot afford to access it, in others, it is censored or constrained.

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

— Kofi Annan

The students of Sinenjongo High School know how powerful a foundation of knowledge is for their future.

Sinenjongo High School
is located in Joe Slovo Park, a small township on the fringes of
Cape Town, South Africa. The high school does not have a library, so students must find other ways to access knowledge in order to complete their assignments and study for university entrance exams.

In 2013, Sinenjongo's Grade 12 students wrote an open letter to South Africa's mobile providers, asking for free access to Wikipedia on their mobile phones. They wanted to remove all barriers to their education.
They wanted to hold the world in their hands.

A few months later mobile network operator MTN South Africa announced they would make Wikipedia available for free for their 20 million users in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation.[3]

We believe everyone should have access to all knowledge — for free, without restriction, without limitation. It is a foundation for a brighter future.

Wikipedia is a foundation of knowledge

Go on — explore the outer limits of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is always expanding and never finished. If you don't discover what you're looking for, you can start creating it yourself.

Wikipedia has more than
33 million
articles in 288
languages

Wikipedia is the largest source of shared knowledge in human history. It is a living record of discovery, history, and innovation. It is a knowledge engine for the planet, sharing freely licensed content around the world.

Nearly
half a billion
people turn to Wikipedia every month for everything from preserving cultural heritage, to improving cancer detection, to researching homework. They come to learn. They stay and discover.

"64%
of British people trust Wikipedia entries more than they trust BBC News."[4]

Over the course of a year, Wikipedia is edited and read by people on every continent in the world — yes, including
Antarctica![5]

Editors and readers — ordinary people — do incredible things with this knowledge. In the United States, a teenager named
Jack Andraka
invented a test that might be used to detect certain cancers using information he found on Wikipedia.[6]

When Jack was 13, a close family friend passed away from
pancreatic cancer, a deadly disease that progresses quickly and quietly.

"I discovered through Wikipedia articles that 85 percent of all pancreatic cancers are diagnosed late, when someone has less than a 2 percent chance of survival, and the current test is this 60-year-old technique that is incredibly outdated, but also incredibly expensive (800 USD per test), missing 30 percent of all cancers. I knew had to do something."

As a high school student, Jack couldn't afford access to costly academic journals. Instead, he turned to Wikipedia, researching
carbon nanotubes
and biochemistry.

With knowledge from Wikipedia and free online science journals, Jack developed a prototype for a potential breakthrough method of cancer screening before his 17th birthday.

People are the foundation of Wikipedia

Wikipedia is written by all of us. The articles, words, pictures, and data are created by a diverse community of people who volunteer to share knowledge with the world.

We write articles, take photographs, answer questions, and teach new people how to contribute.

75,000 writers
and editors wrote more than 4.5 million
new articles this year — and improved countless more

In January of 2014, more than
6,000
new articles were created each day on Wikipedia's 288
different language versions. 84,750
people made more than five edits to Wikipedia in that same time — and many more have stopped by to fix a typo or update a statistic. Each gave their time and their passion to share what they know.

2,547,934,172

The edit counter is a live count of all edits across all databases in Wikimedia's servers.

The edit counter is a live count of all edits across all databases in Wikimedia’s servers.

How does it work? Every five minutes or so, the system queries the databases in the Wikimedia cluster for the sum total of all edits on the Wikimedia projects, and updates this number in a cache. This version queries that cached number of edits using a custom script. It picks a number smaller than the total cached number, displays that, and starts counting upward.

Every few minutes it checks for a new, updated total count. If the live counter has gotten ahead of itself, and the latest cached number is smaller than the script's current count, it jumps back to that; otherwise it keeps counting. The number usually runs about 3 to 5 minutes behind the actual total number of edits on all the Wikimedia projects.

Over any given three months, people make edits to Wikipedia from more than
170
different countries, from Andorra
(a landlocked European microstate) to Zimbabwe
(with 16 official languages).

Everyone is a potential Wikipedian. All it requires is a belief in our shared vision — a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

Meet some members of our community:

Dr. Netha Hussain
is a surgical resident in Kerala, India. There are few encyclopedias in
Malayalam, her native language. She found Wikipedia, including Malayalam Wikipedia, powerful and inspiring. She began returning from lectures and and checking her notes against articles — improving quality and depth on subjects such as
microbiology,
pathology,
pharmacology
and forensic medicine. She considers contributing to Wikipedia a part of her mission as a medical professional — helping empower people with knowledge.

Jacek Halicki
first discovered the Wiki Loves Monuments[7]
photo contest through a banner located on top of the main page of the Polish Wikipedia[8]. It was the first time he ever realized he could actually
edit
Wikipedia, and it quickly became a passion. As a former photojournalist, amateur radio operator,
jazz
lover, and pensioner with severe mobility impairment, Wikipedia was a way for Jacek to explore the world, contribute his photographic talents, and overcome the barriers in his life.

"It is a great use of my free time to the benefit of others and also a way to prove to myself and others that illness does not mean idleness, apathy and depression... I'm glad I'll leave something good behind when I'm gone from this world. I'm glad that my pictures will live on and perhaps, will be useful to people."

— Jacek Halicki, Poland

Dumisani Ndubane
comes from a family of modest means.[9]
When he was accepted to study electrical engineering at a university in Johannesburg, he found his educational grant did not cover food or housing, and was ultimately compelled to suspend his education. He discovered the free curriculum on
Wikiversity
and continued his studies as a companion to pursuing online accreditation at the University of South Africa. He received his degree and joined a firm, where he now mentors young engineers and contributes learning modules of his own to teach others.

Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz
was an early and prolific contributor to Wikipedia, but it took a while before she felt she could admit that to fellow scholars.[10]
Eventually, Dr. Wadewitz, a scholar of 18th century English literature, went public with her passion, becoming one of Wikipedia's first Campus Ambassadors. She consulted with professors, taught students to contribute, and advocated for better representation of women among editors and article subjects. She passed away in a rock climbing accident but her work lives on, helping university professors throughout the world use Wikipedia as a teaching tool.[11]

Ihor Kostenko
was an active contributor to the Ukrainian Wikipedia, writing under the username Ig2000[12]. Ihor registered an account on July 23, 2011, and began writing his first articles right away. In just two and a half years, he wrote more 280 articles and made more than 1,600 edits, becoming a passionate advocate for increasing contributors to Ukrainian Wikipedia. In February 20, 2014, during the
protests
in Kiev, Ihor — an active Wikipedia contributor, journalist, and geography student — died tragically after being shot on the
Euromaidan.

Dorothy Howard
is a Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council, where she works to build relationships with galleries, archives, libraries, and museums around New York City.[13]
She is also one of the originators of Art+Feminism, a global editing project to improve coverage of women, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia. For their efforts, Dorothy and her fellow collaborators were recognized as among
Foreign Policy's
100 Leading Global Thinkers for 2014.[14]
The Wikimedia Foundation is funding Art+Feminism with a grant to expand and grow their networks.

Ram Prasad Joshi
doesn't have a computer and his village has no electricity.[15]
It's a three-hour walk to the nearest road. Despite this, Ram Prasad has made more than 6,000 edits to the Nepali
Wikipedia using nothing more than a simple phone, which he carries with him always. He also has made contributions to the Fijian,
Sanskrit,
Hindi,
Bhojpuri
and Gujarati
Wikipedias. Thanks to Ram Prasad, Wikipedia now features an image of the first known writing of the Nepali language.

Jake Orlowitz
makes it easier for people to access research materials, and started with a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation.[16]
He developed The Wikipedia Library, an online resource that provides free accounts to paywalled publications, databases, universities, and libraries. Now, Jake and his team of volunteer community organizers are working to build The Wikipedia Library into a global open research hub. This year 1,940 people improved their contributions to Wikipedia using 2,924 donated accounts worth 1,263,011 USD.

We were deeply saddened this year by the passing of members of the Wikimedia communities. We are honored to have shared a passion for free knowledge with Ntsika, Adrianne, Ihor, Jim, and others. Their bravery, generosity, and enthusiasm continue to inspire us.

We are the Wikimedia Foundation

The job of the Wikimedia Foundation is to be just that: a foundation. We support the Wikimedia communities. We keep Wikipedia online. We build for the future.

We believe in a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

Every month around
500 million
people visit Wikipedia.
That's nearly 2.5 million
people per Wikimedia Foundation staff person.

The Wikimedia Foundation was established as a non-profit in 2003 to support Wikipedia its sister projects, and the Wikimedia vision.

We keep the websites fast, secure, and available. We make free knowledge accessible wherever you are — on your phone or laptop, on a boat in the South Pacific or in the western hills of Nepal. We bring new knowledge online, lower barriers to access, and make it easier for everyone to share what they know.

We believe everyone has the right to knowledge.
We defend our communities when they are threatened, legally or otherwise. We stand against censorship, and support open licenses, open access, and open source. We engineer privacy for readers and contributors.

We support our contributors, users, and developers. Last year we gave more than
5.7
million USD to projects that increase the quantity, quality, diversity, and reach of knowledge around the world. We offer resources to people and organizations that believe in the Wikimedia vision.

We will only achieve our vision when we share it. By supporting communities, building technology, and funding great ideas, the Wikimedia Foundation is a foundation for people everywhere to change their world.

"I never would have imagined I would be doing what I am doing for so many people... knowing they are going to have a chance to get to access Wikipedia, and be empowered by it. That is when I feel that my job brings an impact to the people around the world."

— Adele Vrana

"...What I love about the team here is the passion to do what we think is the right thing in providing these incredible projects to the communities. It’s a passion from a legal perspective to defend the public domain."

— Geoff Brigham

I know from personal experience that the only real way to improve the conditions of civilizations is to provide open access to information for education and culture. Knowledge is more powerful than any one of us — it belongs to all of us.

I was born in Moscow, in what was then the Soviet Union. Unbiased information was scarce, powerful, and precious.[17]

As a teenager, I moved to the United States alone. I enrolled in high school and learned English. I became captivated by computer science: it combined my passions for the arts and mathematics. It offered the promise of creating a more open future.

This year, I became the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. I joined a community of thousands of passionate creators around the globe, and a staff of 200 people who support the world’s largest free knowledge resource. It was the easiest decision I ever made.

At the Wikimedia Foundation, we help support the Wikimedia vision: the sum of knowledge, shared by all. This vision has never been more important.

The world is changing. Reliable, neutral, and trusted information is as powerful as it has ever been. Every day, we ask ourselves how we can increase our impact, and ensure Wikipedia and the sister projects are even more relevant, trusted, and accessible tomorrow than they are today.

The whole world needs knowledge: more people than before, in different ways than before. Our mission is to ensure that everyone, now and in the future, can access all information. In the hands of everyone, it can cure disease, settle disputes, lift oppression, and inspire creativity.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a four-star rated charity according to Charity Navigator.

Your contributions are the foundation of free knowledge

Every year, fewer than
.5%
of Wikipedia users make a gift to keep knowledge online and independent. They are an exceptional group.

Last year,
2.5 million
people from all over the world gave an average of 15 USD. Their gifts ranged from
1 to 1 million dollars.

Every gift is meaningful, every gift has impact. We are honored to have the support of these generous readers from every corner of the globe.

How can we imagine the sum of all human knowledge without every person?

"The millions of hours contributed by volunteer writers and editors leverage this modest budget, funded by donations, into an asset
worth tens of billions of dollars that produces hundreds of billions of dollars of...benefit."

This spring we had the honor of getting to know Jim Pacha, an engineer from Colorado.[20]

"Educating the world and getting everybody on the same playing field - I think it's great. And the fact that it's done with no advertising is a big thing, because I really don't like what's happening in the world today, with corporate involvement in everything. And I like the fact that Wikipedia is on the World Wide Web, so basically the whole world can access it."

An illness prompted Jim to consider the legacy he wanted to leave behind. He decided to donate much of his estate to the Wikimedia Foundation in support of the Wikimedia vision and mission.

Jim passed away on May 7th, 2014. His gift to the Wikimedia Foundation is the largest legacy gift in our history. We are extremely grateful for his generous donation and ongoing gift. Thank you, Jim.

Thank you, everyone.

From the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation:

"Wikipedia is a unique human project, a radical idea of creating a world where everyone can freely share the sum of all human knowledge. A warm and heartfelt THANK YOU for supporting our mission and making Wikipedia possible!"

— Jessica Robell

"It's a humbling thing to work for a place that exists because of human generosity and altruism (and because I know some of you got to win some bets!), and I'm very grateful. Thank you. This helps keep me going."

— Gayle Karen Young

"This is the hardest, most fulfilling work of my life. Thank you for making Wikipedia possible!"

— Monte Hurd

"Thanks to the world for supporting Wikipedia and playing a most important role in continuing the never-ending mission to share all of the world's knowledge with every person on the planet. With your generosity, Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects will be here for all well into the future! "

— Emily Blanchard

"You are the silent supporters of the largest open knowledge project on the planet. Big and small, your donations help make this happen - year after year. Thank you for your support, thank you for your trust, and thank you for your commitment to free knowledge."

We are grateful to be supported by people around the world. We want to give special thanks to those who gave over 1,000 USD this year:

1+ million USD

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Brin Wojcicki Foundation

Stanton Foundation

100,000 USD - 999,999 USD

Google Matching Gifts

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Microsoft Matching Gifts Program

Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing

Jim Pacha

Anonymous (1)

25,000 USD - 99,999 USD

Apple Matching Gifts Program

Boris and Ināra Teterev Foundation

Craigslist Charitable Fund

Dalio Foundation, Inc.

Keel Foundation

Mary Graham

MathWorks

Newsmax Media

Two Sigma Investments, LLC

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Charina Endowment Fund

Anonymous (7)

5,000 USD - 24,999 USD

John E. Abele

Anurag Acharya and Madhuri Chattopadhyay Anurag

The Blackburn Family Fund

Boeing Co. Matching Gifts

The Brightwater Fund — Gloria Jarecki, President

Annette Campbell-White

Caulkins Family Foundation

CNCRepair.com

Liam Connell

David Dacus

Carl de Marcken

eBay Foundation

Douglas Ferguson

In Memory of David Garbers

GE Foundation Matching Gifts

Goldman Sachs & Co. Matching Gifts Program

Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund of the Tides Foundation

Graphics Press, LLC

Michael and Andrea Hale

David Marin and Amanda Halpin

Mark Heising and Liz Simons

John Horne

Interlude

Jonathan Jarvis

JP Morgan Chase Foundation

Steve Kass

Takashi Kousaka

The Lehoczky Escobar Family

Nicholas Logothetis

Bill and Marilyn McCune

Joseph K. McLaughlin

Metz Family Foundation

Roberto Mignone

Miller-Wehrle Family Foundation

The Montgomery Family Foundation

Sheila Mossman

Maran Elancheran — Newgen KnowledgeWorks

The Nia/Zahiri Foundation

P&C Collins Fund at the Bessemer Trust

Yana and Stephen Peel

Post Investment Group

Qualcomm Matching Gifts Program

Tom and Xiaoling Rawson

RetailMeNot

Rick & Susan Goings Foundation

Philip Rogers

Bow Ruggeri

Richard Saada

Scooter Software

The Selz Foundation

Shaked Family, Tel Aviv

Silverleaf Foundation

Stack Exchange

TheLadders

Peter Wheeler and Elizabeth Munro

Hal Varian

Yardi Systems

David and Monica Zwirner

Anonymous (101)

1,000 USD - 4,999 USD

Adobe

AIG Matching Grants Program

Airbus Group, Inc.

David P. Albrecht

J. Alex Graeffe

In Memory of Tim Allen

Fatima Al-Sabah

American Express Company Employee Giving Program

Ameriprise Financial

Amgen Foundation

Seonhee An & Vincent Leung

The Anderson Family

Dalibor Antonić

AON Foundation

Etienne Ardant

AT&T Foundation

Jesse Ausubel

Prabhu Balasubramanian

R & A Bandela

Bank of America Matching Gifts Program

In Honor of Kathy Bates

Ben Bayer

Jack Baylis

BD Group

Heather Bendler

William Benter

Jayashree and K.S. Bhaskar

Butch Biendara

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Matching Gifts Program

Graeme Birchall

BlackRock Matching Gifts Program

BluePromoCode

BMT Micro, Inc.

David Bohnett Foundation

Beverly & George Bond

Antoine Boulin

Ernest L. Bruns Jr. and Sue Ann Kendall

David Bydeley

CA Technologies Matching Gift Program

In Honor of Donald Thomas Campbell

Brian Cairns

Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation

In Memory of Andrea F. Carret

Raul Carmenate

Adam Carte

Vint Cerf

Crystal Chen, MD

Stuart Cheshire

Chevron Humankind Matching Gifts Program

James Cho and Sophia Kim

Michael Choy and Shannon Moffett

Nicholas Chu

Ryan Conlon

Tom Cooper

CouponFollow

CouponLawn

Ardelle Cowie

CRAIC Technologies

Kevin Cramer

Fred Dart, FTDI

Ad Davidse & Cathie Schrier

Dell Employees Giving Program

Stephen & Elizabeth Detwiler

Hester Diamond

DirecTV Matching Gift Center

Michael and Denise Doyen

DreamHost and its Customers

Mark Duttweiler and Christine Pajak

Kenneth Eddings

entimovi.net

Davide G. Erro

Extra Space Storage

Damian Farry

Flipit

Carla & Charlie Flournoy

Marc Forand

Gregory Fox

Janet and Lloyd Frink

Paul Funk

Ken Geib

Genentech Employee Giving Program

General Mills Foundation Gift Matching Program

May-Ling Gonzales and Leith Abdulla

Lawrence Greenfield

Rakesh and Kirti Gupta

Alexandre Haag

The Hamilton Foundation

Josh Bernoff and Kimberley Harding

In Honor of Tom and Shoshana Harper

healthinsurance.org

The Harrity Family

Charles F. Hebert and Marie Alida Desselle Hebert

Paul Henry

Hewlett Packard Company Foundation

Hillspire, LLC

Zach Hoeken

Michael Hollihan-Sarmiento

Chris Horning

HSBC

Lisha and Andy Hu

Ted Huber

IBM Employee Donations

Imperial Reach

INSERTO

Insiders Finland Oy Ab

Intetics Co.

Intuit Foundation

Douglas Jaffe

Kent Janér

John P. McCaskey Foundation

Dan Jones

Joy is one's fuel

In Memory of our smart, loving Grandma Judy

Lucian Kafka and aura.travel

Ellen Karaku

In Honor of Harold King

The Kipping Family

In Honor of SJ Klein, Jr. and Jimmy Wales

The KlickEx Group

In Memory of George Steven Knowles

Little Johnny Koerber

Igor Kopylov

Corey Kosak

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Kropla

Pradhan Kumar

En souvenir de Réal Labelle

乐进会

Pete Large & Mandy Loomis

Lawrence Livermore Labs

Linda Lee

In Memory of Mary Lew

Leong & Richards

Lincoln Loop

Gregg and Libby Lindahl

Christopher J. Lingle

John Longres & Jeff Graham

Erin Lowry

Marilyn Lucht

Greg and Liz Lutz

In Memory of Shaynon MaGee Jordan

Make-A-Website

Lenza McElrath

In Memory of Nadia L. Mead, Mandarin, Florida

Helen and Stephen Mildenhall

Kelly T. Miller

Ryan Mills

Dr. L. David Mirkin

Alan Mishchenko

Ty Mulroy and Ellen Ray

Umesh Nagarkatte

National Instruments

In Memory of Robert Neale

Netmail & Messaging Architects Employee-Owners

Donors of Network For Good

In Memory of Marjorie Yospin Newman

Héléne Nivoix, Besançon, France

North American Herb and Spice

Nvidia Employee Giving Program

Diya Obeid

On Behalf of the Scientists of Huntsville, Alabama

Oracle Corporation Matching Gifts Program

John and Rita Ousterhout

In Memory of my beloved mother, Pravina Patel

Terrence D. Paul

Daniel Perlman

PCH Integrated Regulatory Services, Inc.

Lena Pepper

Drew Perkins

In Honor of Nick Peter

Bryce and Shonni Peterson

Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Program

Duane Phillips

In Memory of Donald R. Pieper

Joseph Pistritto

Doug Pitcock

Rahn Pitzer

Alexander Polsky

Prakhar Prerak Akta Pravin

Robert and Anna Prestezog

Quality Logo Products

Radon.com

PVS Raju

B S Ramamurtie

Rear Admiral Gametools

Richard and Lisa Reichman

Paul Resnick and Caroline Richardson

Sean Rhea and Lucy Almers

George & Alice Rich Charitable Foundation

Deborah and Peter Rieman

Gaspar Cabrera Roca

Arnold G. Rogers

Rohini and Prasana Family Trust

Alexander and Jeannine Rubenstein

Robert Rubenstien

Matt Rudary

Runtime Design Automation

Salesforce.com Foundation Matching Gifts

Dorothea and Hartmut Samtleben

SAP Matching Gift Program

John and Susan Savva

E. Schmale

Roy Schneiderman (Bard Consulting)

Josh Schripsema and Kresta Austin

Anna Scott

SelectAware Coupons

Shell Matching Gifts Program

Russel Simmons

Wilmar Siqueira

www.ski-epic.com

skiprobert

Petr Skrla

Dick Smith, Sydney, Australia

Minyoung Sohn

Solera Family

Space Exploration Technologies Corp

Spellbook

Stratos

H. Scott Stillings

Studio Alchemy

SumoCoupon

David Sunderland

Roger Suss

G. & M. Swaminathan

Bronwyn Miriam Syed

Terry Tai

In Memory of Andrea Tallant

Targit

Luigi Tempini and Family

Thanksgiving Fund

Thatai Family

Sudhir Thomas

Thomson Reuters My Community Program

Min Thu

Viajes Tierra Sinai

Tikvah Philanthropic Fund

TisBest Charity Gift Cards

Jonathan Tobert

E. Trewitt

Tripling Elephants

Rui Ueyama

Jason Ursaner

Maarten Vaandrager

Erik Vaaler

David L. Van Brunt

Sami Vanhatalo

Jason VanWees

Ajit Varki

Verizon Foundation

Visa Matching Gifts Program

VMware Foundation

Chad and Kim Wagner

In Memory of Jack Wahl

Robert Wares

Jim and Judy Warner

Rich Warner

丁磊

Web Hosting Coupon Codes

Dr. Jack Widrich Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation Staff

Wil Wilstro

The Walt Disney Company Foundation

The Wolff Family

Oliver Wright

Xie Wu

Yahoo Employee Funds Matching Gifts

Jeff Yass

Brian Ho Tze Yew

Zephyr Charitable Foundation

Greg Zeschuk

Anonymous (592)

Financial position and performance

The Wikimedia Foundation is proud to be one of the most transparent non-profit organizations in the world. We consider all of our expenditures against a framework of our strategy, values, and mission. We carry financial reserves in accordance with non-profit best practices to ensure the future and health of the Wikimedia projects.

This year we highlight our efforts in three main areas: how donor contributions support Wikimedia project websites, our communities, and free knowledge overall. The following designations are as reported by the Wikimedia Foundation’s departments themselves.

Balance Sheet

As of June 30, 2014
In thousands, In US dollars

Assets

Current assets

Cash and cash equivalents

27,880

Current portion of contributions receivable

1,800

Investments

23,261

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

1,600

Total current assets

54,541

Property, plant, and equipment, net

4,053

Noncurrent portion of contributions receivable

1,967

Total assets

60,561

Liabilities and Net Assets

Current liabilities

Accounts payable

2,029

Accrued expenses

3,577

Deferred revenue

18

Other liabilities

1,462

Total current liabilities

7,086

Total liabilities

7,086

Net assets

Unrestricted

49,825

Temporarily restricted

3,650

Total net assets

53,475

Total liabilities and net assets

60,561

Unrestricted net assets

Support and revenue

Donations and contributions

49,612

In-kind service revenue

370

Other income, net

989

Investment income, net

244

Release of restrictions on temporarily restricted net assets

1,589

Total support and revenue

52,804

Expenses

Salaries and wages

19,980

Awards and grants

5,705

Internet hosting

2,529

In-kind service expenses

371

Other operating expenses

12,485

Travel and conferences

1,966

Depreciation

2,722

Special event expense, net

143

Total expenses

45,900

Increase in unrestricted net assets

6,904

Temporarily restricted net assets

Contributions

2,971

Release of restrictions on temporarily restricted net assets

(1,589)

Increase in temporarily restricted net assets

1,382

Increase in net assets

8,286

Net assets at beginning of year

45,189

Net assets at end of year

53,475

Departmental Allocation of Expenses

For the period from July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014
In thousands, In US dollars

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